With millions of South Africans unemployed — particularly young people — employers wield enormous power. The message is clear: “If you don’t accept these conditions, there are…
Trade unions are still the best way of organising resistance to the violence of capitalism
About 32% of the population is unemployed; of the employed, 35.9% are in informal work; and of the formally employed, nearly 40% earn less than R3,500 a month
The issue lies in management-by-algorithm — the technologically ‘objective’ use of people analytics, big data and AI to manage the workforce
When macroeconomic policy has so clearly failed workers, and us all, why is a complete overhaul still out of the question?
Those tasked with raising people out of oppression have done a poor job of it in the past 26 years
At best the rally was a sad reminder of just how badly the battle for control of the governing party have decimated the ANC’s alliance partner.
A hot day at Sugar Ray Xulu with campaigning almost over may show why the ruling party should be worried
The president talked up his achievements in the last year at a May Day rally organised by Cosatu in Durban
The EFF leader says Alexandra is an indication of how the governing party has done nothing to improve the lives of township residents
But an apparition at the march morphs into Niehaus – Daddy has even gutted Cosatu
The president has hit back at critics of the national minimum wage saying the proposed R20 an hour is just a baseline
The labour union has taken aim at trade federation Cosatu for allowing the president to address workers at their May Day celebration
The minimum wage was initially supposed to be introduced on May 1. However, this has been delayed.
Workers’ reaction to the president at the May Day rally in Bloemfontein shouldn’t have come as a shock to the ANC and Cosatu – they’d been warned.
Ebrahim Harvey didn’t check his facts, says Zwelinzima Vavi.
This is a time to embrace working-class unity and challenge the status quo of capitalist oppression.
Observers have cited a weakness in pushing for a salary rise for Zimbabwe’s public servants as proof of ineffectiveness.
Labour Day – or May Day – has triggered protests against harsh government spending cuts around the world, with some demonstrations turning violent.
May Day protesters have poured into Europe’s streets, swept up in a wave of anti-austerity anger that threatens to topple leaders in Paris and Athens.
